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Female Homosexuality - Choice Without Volition (Paperback): Elaine V. Siegel Female Homosexuality - Choice Without Volition (Paperback)
Elaine V. Siegel
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Describing in detail her analytic treatment of eight female homosexuals with common symptoms of incomplete body image and unconscious denial of differences between the sexes, Siegel details the recurring treatment phases that typified their analyses and offers formulations based on both ego-developmental and object-relational perspectives. She candidly describes the countertransferential issues that entered into the treatment of these women and examines basic societal assumptions about sexuality that are imprinted on the analyst.

Ageing Resource Communities - New frontiers of rural population change, community development and voluntarism (Hardcover): Mark... Ageing Resource Communities - New frontiers of rural population change, community development and voluntarism (Hardcover)
Mark Skinner, Neil Hanlon
R4,445 Discovery Miles 44 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout the world's hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource frontier ageing, to understand the diverse experiences of and responses to rural population ageing in the early 21st century. The book explores the resource hinterland as a new frontier of rural ageing and examines three central themes of rural population change, community development and voluntarism that characterize ageing resource communities. By investigating the links among these three themes, the book provides the conceptual and empirical foundations for the future agenda of rural ageing research. This timely contribution contains 15 original chapters by leading international experts from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland and Norway.

Compulsive Exercise And The Eating Disorders - Toward An Integrated Theory Of Activity (Paperback): Alayne Yates Compulsive Exercise And The Eating Disorders - Toward An Integrated Theory Of Activity (Paperback)
Alayne Yates
R1,446 Discovery Miles 14 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The author examines the linkages and similarities between compulsive athletics and eating disorders, and proposes that they are different manifestations of a single condition: the activity disorder.

Globalization and Europe's Rural Regions (Hardcover, New Ed): John McDonagh Globalization and Europe's Rural Regions (Hardcover, New Ed)
John McDonagh; Birte Nienaber
R3,995 Discovery Miles 39 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the multiple ways in which rural regions in Europe are being restructured through globalization and the regional development responses that they have adopted. It provides an understanding of the key challenges and opportunities for rural regions arising from the major economic, social, political and cultural changes associated with globalization, including trade liberalization and economic deregulation, increased international migration, and the rise of global consciousness about environmental issues. Drawing on examples and findings from a major European research project, DERREG, the book presents detailed case studies of ten regions in different parts of Europe, exploring the factors that lead to different experiences of globalization in each of the regions, and highlighting examples of good practice in regional development responses. The book concludes by proposing a typology of regional responses to globalization and considering the policy implications of the research findings. As such, 'Globalization and Europe's Rural Regions' is important reading for geographers, sociologists, planners and economists interested in understanding the impact of globalization in rural regions, and for rural development professionals seeking to mobilize effective responses.

The Natural Family Where it Belongs - New Agrarian Essays (Paperback): Allan C Carlson The Natural Family Where it Belongs - New Agrarian Essays (Paperback)
Allan C Carlson
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital bond of the natural family to an agrarian-like household, where the "sexual" merges with the "economic" through marriage and child-rearing and where the family is defined by its material efforts. This agrarianism is alive and well in twenty-first century America and Europe. Allan C. Carlson argues that recreating a family-centered economy portends renewal of the true democracy dreamed of by Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. Critically well received, this paperback edition makes The Natural Family Where It Belongs available to teachers and students of twentieth century American social history and the American family system. It will also be welcomed by practitioners involved with the "new agrarian" revival of the last twenty-five years. As Carlson demonstrates, agrarian households represent the touchstones of a sustainable human future. Written by one of the most prestigious and respected scholars in the field, The Natural Family Where It Belongs will influence how today's family life is viewed in America and abroad. This volume is the latest in Transaction's Marriage and Family Studies series.

Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities - Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths (Hardcover): Lisa Schade... Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities - Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths (Hardcover)
Lisa Schade Eckert, Janet Alsup
R3,985 Discovery Miles 39 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in teaching and learning. Authentic narratives document individual teachers' moments of struggle and success in learning to understand, value, and incorporate rural literacies and sensibilities into their curricula. The teachers' stories and the scholarly analysis of issues raised through them illuminate the unique challenges and rewards of teaching English in a rural school and offer helpful insights and knowledge for navigating the pedagogical landscape.

Big Places, Big Plans (Paperback): Mark B. Lapping Big Places, Big Plans (Paperback)
Mark B. Lapping
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With origins in the late 1960s, a 'quiet revolution' in land use planning and control has taken hold across North America. First seen as a manifestation of the environmental movement, the revolution prompted governments at several levels to attempt to protect critical areas and vulnerable natural resources. Many of the most dramatic and far-reaching shifts in planning regimes have occurred in large-scale, environmentally unique or sensitive regions. It is these big places, looming large in the American and Canadian psyches, that are the focus of this edited volume. Each of the chapters reflects on the contemporary challenge of environmental and land use planning. Ten leading distinguished scholars here provide thoughtful analyses and critical insights into the processes and contexts shaping the innovative planning and policy schemes in seven regional landscapes.

A West Country Village Ashworthy (Paperback): W.M. Williams A West Country Village Ashworthy (Paperback)
W.M. Williams
R1,373 Discovery Miles 13 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume examines the effects of rural depopulation as a process on the structure of family and kinship within one small rural area, analysing the spatial relationships of social and economic change. Part One documents these relationships in the context of family farming; the second part is largely devoted to the effects of demographic change on the structure of family and kinship within one small community.

Gender-based Violence and Rurality in the 21st Century - Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover): Millan AbiNader, Sam Allen,... Gender-based Violence and Rurality in the 21st Century - Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover)
Millan AbiNader, Sam Allen, Madison Bainter, Kelle Barrick, Kaiti Blackburn, …
R2,293 Discovery Miles 22 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gender-based violence (GBV) can take many forms and have detrimental effects across generations and cultures. The triangulation of GBV, rurality and rural culture is a challenging and essential topic and this edited collection provides an innovative analysis of GBV in rural communities. Focusing on under-studied and/or oppressed groups such as immigrants and LGBT+ people, the book explores new theories on patterns of violence. Giving insights into GBV education and prevention, the text introduces community justice and victim advocacy approaches to tackling issues of GBV in rural areas. From policy review into actionable change, the editors examine best practices to positively affect the lives of survivors.

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa - A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns (Paperback): Abner Cohen Custom and Politics in Urban Africa - A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns (Paperback)
Abner Cohen
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A discussion of the process by which some ethnic groups manipulate values, myths, symbols and ceremonials from their traditional culture in order to develop an informal political organisation. This organisation is then used as a weapon in the struggle for power and privilege within contemporary society.

Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities - Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths (Paperback): Lisa Schade... Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities - Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths (Paperback)
Lisa Schade Eckert, Janet Alsup
R1,546 Discovery Miles 15 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in teaching and learning. Authentic narratives document individual teachers' moments of struggle and success in learning to understand, value, and incorporate rural literacies and sensibilities into their curricula. The teachers' stories and the scholarly analysis of issues raised through them illuminate the unique challenges and rewards of teaching English in a rural school and offer helpful insights and knowledge for navigating the pedagogical landscape.

Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements (Hardcover, New Ed): Daniel R. Curtis Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements (Hardcover, New Ed)
Daniel R. Curtis
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: exogenous environmental hazards such as earthquakes or plagues, economic or political hazards from 'outside' such as warfare or expropriation of property, or hazards of their own-making such as soil erosion or subsistence crises. How then can we explain why some societies were able to overcome or negate these problems, while other societies proved susceptible to failure, as settlements contracted, stagnated, were abandoned, or even disappeared entirely? This book has been stimulated by the questions and hypotheses put forward by a recent 'disaster studies' literature - in particular, by placing the intrinsic arrangement of societies at the forefront of the explanatory framework. Essentially it is suggested that the resilience or vulnerability of habitation has less to do with exogenous crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses which dictate: (a) the extent of destruction caused by crises and the capacity for society to protect itself; and (b) the capacity to create a sufficient recovery. By empirically testing the explanatory framework on a number of societies between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century in England, the Low Countries, and Italy, it is ultimately argued in this book that rather than the protective functions of the state or the market, or the implementation of technological innovation or capital investment, the most resilient human habitations in the pre-industrial period were those than displayed an equitable distribution of property and a well-balanced distribution of power between social interest groups. Equitable distributions of power and property were the underlying conditions in pre-industrial societies that all

Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric - An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding (Paperback): Penny Dransart Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric - An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding (Paperback)
Penny Dransart
R1,725 Discovery Miles 17 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara herding community, based on more than ten years fieldwork in Isluga in the Chilean highlands, with archaeological material from excavations in the Atacama desert.
Impeccably researched, this book is the first systematic study to set the material culture of pastoral communities against an understanding of the long-term effects of herding practices.

Territorial Cohesion in Rural Europe - The Relational Turn in Rural Development (Hardcover): Andrew Copus, Philomena De Lima Territorial Cohesion in Rural Europe - The Relational Turn in Rural Development (Hardcover)
Andrew Copus, Philomena De Lima
R4,301 Discovery Miles 43 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent years. This reveals a need to refresh the concepts we use to understand, measure and describe rural communities and their development potential. This book argues that Europe has 'outgrown' many of the stereotypes usually associated with it, with substantial implications for European Rural Policy. Rural structural change and its evolving geography are portrayed through regional typologies and the concept of the New Rural Economy. Demographic change, migration, business networks and agricultural restructuring are each explored in greater detail. Implications for equality and social exclusion, and recent developments in the field of governance are also considered. Despite being a subject of active debate, interventions in the fields of rural and regional development have failed to adapt to changing realities and have become increasingly polarized. This book argues that rural/regional policy needs to evolve in order to address the current complex reality, partially reformulating territorial or place-based approaches, and the New Rural Paradigm, following a set of principles termed 'Rural Cohesion Policy'.

The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime (Hardcover): Alistair Harkness, Jessica Rene Peterson, Matt Bowden, Cassie Pedersen, Joseph... The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime (Hardcover)
Alistair Harkness, Jessica Rene Peterson, Matt Bowden, Cassie Pedersen, Joseph Donnermeyer
R2,451 Discovery Miles 24 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The key reference guide to rural crime and rural justice, this encyclopedia includes 85 concise and informative entries covering rural crime theories, offences and control. It is divided into five complementary sections: * theories of rural crime; * rural crime studies; * rural criminal justice studies; * rural people and groups; * rural criminological research. With contributions from established and emerging international scholars, this authoritative guide offers state-of-the-art synopses of the key issues in rural crime, criminology, offending and victimisation, and both institutional and informal responses to rural crime.

Rural Change in Australia - Population, Economy, Environment (Hardcover, New Ed): Rae Dufty-jones Rural Change in Australia - Population, Economy, Environment (Hardcover, New Ed)
Rae Dufty-jones; John Connell
R4,304 Discovery Miles 43 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia. They range from ageing populations, youth out-migration, immigration policies (that seek to place skilled migrants in rural Australia), tree changers, agricultural restructuring and new relationships with indigenous populations. Challenges also exist around the 'patchwork economy' and the wealth that the mining boom offers some areas, while threatening regional economic decline in others. Rural Australia is increasingly not simply a place of production of agriculture and minerals but an idea that individuals seek and are encouraged to consume. The socio-economic implications of drought, water rights and changing farming practices, have prefaced new social, cultural and economic reforms. This book provides a contemporary perspective on rapidly evolving population, economic and environmental changes in 'rural and regional Australia', itself a significant concept. Bringing together a range of empirical studies, the book builds on established rural studies themes such as population change, economic restructuring and globalisation in agriculture but links such changes to environmental change, culture, class, gender, and ethnic diversity. Presenting original and in-depth interventions on these issues and their intersections, this book assembles the best of contemporary research on rural Australia.

Tradition and Economy in Village India (Paperback): K Ishwaran Tradition and Economy in Village India (Paperback)
K Ishwaran
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. The efficacy of the modern village or community studies lies in their deriving better understandings of the structure and function of institutions. They perform this office of social science by analysing the living workings of institutions in the experience of human beings struggling between traditional values and modern imperatives of change. the book before us is a community study, in that it lays bare before us a living village, in an interesting and too little reported region of the great and complex land of India. It is also, most importantly, the study of a local variant of a traditional economies institution, called elsewhere the Jajmani system, better the traditional economy of clientage and patronage, uniting service castes in ritual and craft services to the landowners and cultivators of a corporate village. an object of interest and seminal for social science since its discovery in the seminal historical studies of Sir Henry Maine.

Regional Resilience, Economy and Society - Globalising Rural Places (Hardcover, New Ed): Christine Tamasy, Javier Revilla Diez Regional Resilience, Economy and Society - Globalising Rural Places (Hardcover, New Ed)
Christine Tamasy, Javier Revilla Diez
R4,303 Discovery Miles 43 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalisation, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relations. Recent research highlights the heterogeneity of globalisation in which rural places are different to each other, but also different to how they were in the past. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of academics, and comparative case studies from Europe (West and East) and Asia, this book explores and discusses opportunities and challenges associated with globalising rural places, and identifies possibilities for policy and practical intervention by rural development actors. Special attention is paid to multi-scalar processes through which rural places are reshaped through globalisation. Taking a geographical approach, the book produces new critical work on the interdependence between globalisation and rural spaces. It is organised into five sections: Part I focuses on 'Global-Rural Linkages' showing the multifaceted interrelation between actors at different geographical scale and demonstrating that globalisation is not only external to rural spaces. Part II on 'Rural Entrepreneurship and Labour Markets' explores the potential of business start-ups in rural spaces which are not only necessity driven. Part III 'Rural Innovation and Learning' shows that rural places are also places for innovation and learning. Part IV on 'Rural Policies and Governance' argues that regional policies for rural places should promote side activities to maintain social capital and that regional policy should take a more integrative perspective between urban and rural spaces in order to explore complementary development paths. The concluding chapter 'New Approaches to Rural Spaces' discusses new approaches to globalising rural places in relation to the preceding chapters published in this book.

Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf - State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE (Paperback):... Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf - State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE (Paperback)
Courtney Freer, Alanoud Alsharekh
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE aiming to understand the degree to which tribes hinder or advance popular participation in government and to what extent they exert domestic political power. The research traces the historical relationship between ruling elites and nomadic tribes, and, by constructing political histories of these states and analysing the role of tribes in domestic political life and social hierarchies, reveals how they serve as major political actors in the Gulf. A key focus of the book is understanding the extent to which societies in the Gulf have become 're-bedouinised' in the modern era and how this has shaped these states' political processes and institutions. The book explores the roles that tribes play in the development of "progressive" citizenship regimes and policymaking today, and how they are likely to be influential in the future within rentier environments.

Gender and Rural Migration - Realities, Conflict and Change (Hardcover, New): Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Gender and Rural Migration - Realities, Conflict and Change (Hardcover, New)
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
R4,451 Discovery Miles 44 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change explores the intersection of gender, migration, and rurality in 21st-century Western and non-Western contexts. In a world where heightened globalization is making borders increasingly porous, rural communities form part of the migration nexus. While rural out-migration is well-documented, the gendered dynamics of rural in-migration - including return rural migration and the connectivity of rural-urban/global-local spaces - are often overlooked. In this collection, well-grounded case studies involving diverse groups of people in rural communities in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Norway, the United States, and Uzbekistan are organized into three themes: contesting rurality and belonging, women's empowerment and social relations, and sexualities and mobilities. As demonstrated in this anthology, rural areas are contested sites among queer youth, same-sex couples, working women, young mothers, migrant farm workers, temporary foreign workers, in-migrants, and return migrants. The rich expositions of various narratives and statistical data in multidisciplinary perspectives by emerging and established scholars claim gender and rurality as nodal points in contemporary migration discourse.

Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Hardcover, New): Stephen Wegren Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Hardcover, New)
Stephen Wegren
R4,452 Discovery Miles 44 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.

Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe - Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment,... Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe - Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics (Paperback)
John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, …
R1,672 Discovery Miles 16 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project - Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development - undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).

Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951 (Paperback): John Saville Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951 (Paperback)
John Saville
R1,383 Discovery Miles 13 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Sociology of an English Village: Gosforth (Paperback): W.M. Williams The Sociology of an English Village: Gosforth (Paperback)
W.M. Williams
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Moral Economy of the Countryside - Anglo-Saxon to Anglo-Norman England (Paperback): Rosamond Faith The Moral Economy of the Countryside - Anglo-Saxon to Anglo-Norman England (Paperback)
Rosamond Faith
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing attitudes and values of medieval England? Considering these questions from the perspective of the 'moral economy', the web of shared values within a society, Rosamond Faith offers a penetrating portrait of a changing world. Anglo-Saxon lords were powerful in many ways but their power did not stem directly from their ownership of land. The values of early medieval England - principally those of rank, reciprocity and worth - were shared across society. The Norman Conquest brought in new attitudes both to land and to the relationship between lords and peasants, and the Domesday Book conveyed the novel concept of 'tenure'. The new 'feudal thinking' permeated all relationships concerned with land: peasant farmers were now manorial tenants, owing labour and rent. Many people looked back to better days.

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